Melek Vuslat

Melek Vuslat (1933-) was a Turkish Islamist politician who founded the Muslim Party in 2004.

Biography
Melek Vuslat was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1933, and he was raised in a traditionalist Sunni Muslim family. Vuslat became a imam, but he frequently got into trouble with the government due to his anti-secularist views. During the 1970s, he was influenced by the growing Salafist movement, and he became involved with the Islamist Welfare Party and Felicity Party during the 1990s. In 2004, after his previous two parties were banned, Vuslat founded the Muslim Party, which was a hardline Islamist and anti-Western party. In 2004, his party won 4 seats in parliament, and he was its parliamentary leader.